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Venantino Venantini

Venantino Venantini

Italian actor (1930-2018)
April 17, 1930 (October 9, 2018)
Fr. 2015. Sentimental comedy by Claude Lelouch with Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Christophe Lambert. While in India to supervise the music for a film, a fickle Parisian composer who is reluctant to marry his younger spouse falls in love with the wife of the French ambassador.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2014. Comedy by Robin Davis with Frédéric Diefenthal, Frédérique Bel, Roland Giraud. Forgotten in a restaurant, the President of France
Runtime: 85 min.

22 Bullets

V.O.: L'Immortel
Fr. 2010. Crime drama by Richard Berry with Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs. Having survived an assassination attempt, a former mafia boss from Marseille tries to identify and eliminate those who wanted him dead.
Runtime: 117 min.

Could This Be Love?

V.O.: Je crois que je l'aime
Fr. 2007. Sentimental comedy by Pierre Jolivet with Sandrine Bonnaire, Vincent Lindon, François Berléand. In love with an artist, the CEO of a company asks a detective to investigate her in order to improve his chances of winning her over.
Runtime: 90 min.

Madame de Pompadour, the King's Favourite

V.O.: Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
Fr. 2006. History by Robin Davis with Hélène de Fougerolles, Vincent Pérez, Charlotte de Turckheim. The turbulent life of Jeanne Poisson, a woman of humble background who became the influential mistress of King Louis XV.
Runtime: 192 min.
Fr. 2003. Crime drama by Patrick Jamain with Alain Delon, Sophie Von Kessel, Cédric Chevalme. A bloody revenge killing leads a policeman on the trail of a young woman who wants to avenge the death of her father.
Runtime: 92 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1995. Dramatic comedy by Paolo Barzman with Vanessa Demouy, Patrick Forster-Delmas, Paul Barge.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1989. Comedy by Gérard Oury with Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Isaach de Bankolé. A woman married to a jealous surgeon who ignores her past as a spy agrees to carry out a new mission without her husband's knowledge.
Runtime: 105 min.

Aladdin

V.O.: Superfantagenio
It. 1986. Fantasy comedy by Bruno Corbucci with Bud Spencer, Luca Venantini, Julian Voloshin. In Miami, a genie becomes the friend and protector of a teenager who got him out of his lamp by cleaning it.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1984. Crime drama by Greydon Clark with Joe Don Baker, Venantino Venantini, Rossano Brazzi. In charge of escorting a prisoner to Italy, a sheriff goes in pursuit after he escapes during a forced landing.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1981. Sports drama by E.W. Swackhamer with Leif Garrett, Ralph Seymour, Linda Manz.
Runtime: 100 min.

City of the Living Dead

V.O.: Paura nella Città dei morti viventi
Runtime: 91 min.
Runtime: 93 min.
Runtime: 105 min.
Runtime: 91 min.

S.O.S. Concorde

V.O.: Concorde Affaire '79
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1978. Police comedy by Pierre Goutas with Venantino Venantini, Alfred Adam, Maïa Simon.
Fr. 1976. Police comedy by Francis Girod with Gérard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Sylvia Kristel. A notorious bandit and a police inspector share wacky adventures.
Runtime: 101 min.

Emmanuelle 2

V.O.: Emmanuelle l'antivierge
Fr. 1975. Mores drama by Francis Giacobetti with Sylvia Kristel, Umberto Orsini, Catherine Rivet. Coming to join her engineer husband in the East, a loose woman becomes attached to the daughter of an English businessman and initiates her into erotic games.
Runtime: 92 min.

The Fuhrer Runs Amok

V.O.: Le Führer en folie
Fr. 1974. Burlesque by Philippe Clair with Henri Tisot, Alice Sapritch, Luis Rego. Three French soldiers who were parachuted into Germany are taken prisoner and integrated into the German soccer team that is to play a match against France.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1973. Adventures by Claude Mulot with Charles Southwood, Nathalie Delon, Curd Jürgens. The many adventures of a bank employee who left his job to go to Polynesia.
Runtime: 89 min.

La Peau qui brûle

V.O.: La Rossa dalla pelle che scotta
It. 1973. Psychological drama by Renzo Russo with Farley Granger, Erika Blanc, Venantino Venantini. A failed painter remembers the trouble he got into with a pretty woman who was his model.
Runtime: 80 min.

Dérapage contrôlé

V.O.: Troppo rischio per un uomo solo
It. 1973. Crime drama by Luciano Ercoli with Giuliano Gemma, Susan Scott, Venantino Venantini. A race car driver, suspected of murdering his mistress, escapes from prison and begins his own investigation.
Runtime: 105 min.

Cops is Cops

V.O.: Il était une fois un flic...
Fr. 1972. Police comedy by Georges Lautner with Michel Constantin, Mireille Darc, Michael Lonsdale. A police officer poses as the brother of a gangster who has just been murdered.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1972. Psychological drama by Guy Casaril with Anicée Alvina, Nicole Courcel, Venantino Venantini. A teenage girl begins a lesbian affair with the mistress of her widowed father.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Priest's Wife

V.O.: La Moglie del prete
It. 1971. Comedy by Dino Risi with Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Venantino Venantini. A young woman pursues a priest with her affections in order to get him to marry her.

Delusions of Grandeur

V.O.: La Folie des grandeurs
Fr. 1971. Comedy by Gérard Oury with Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch. Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman decides to plot his revenge by passing off his valet as a nephew returning from America.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1970. Satire by Jacques Scandelari with Michèle Mercier, Pierre Brasseur, Henri Piégay. The misadventures of a simple worker who wins a contest organized by an advertising agency.
Runtime: 94 min.

Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?

V.O.: Êtes-vous fiancée à un marin grec ou à un pilote de ligne?
Fr. 1970. Mores comedy by Jean Aurel with Jean Yanne, Françoise Fabian, Nicole Calfan. After their two children run away from home, a divorcing couple reviews their decision.
Runtime: 102 min.

The War Devils

V.O.: I Diavoli della guerra
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1968. Satire by Gérard Pirès with Annie Girardot, Jean Yanne, Francis Blanche. Feeling neglected by her husband, a young woman believes that she lacks erotic attraction.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1967. Sentimental drama by Marcel Camus with Jacques Perrin, Catherine Jourdan, Georges Géret. The secretary of a chain of nightclubs' owner escapes from that environment for loving a young girl.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1967. Crime drama by Georges Lautner with Mireille Darc, Hardy Krüger, Maurice Biraud. While waiting to commit a robbery in Lebanon, a mobster falls in love with a pretty girl.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Restaurant

V.O.: Le Grand Restaurant
Fr. 1966. Police comedy by Jacques Besnard with Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, Rosa Maria Rodriguez. The owner of a restaurant is drawn into a police adventure following the disappearance of a customer.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1965. Psychological drama by Georges Lautner with Mireille Darc, Venantino Venantini, Françoise Prévost. A young girl saves a woman from suicide but falls in love with her husband.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Sucker

V.O.: Le Corniaud
Fr. 1964. Police comedy by Gérard Oury with Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Venantino Venantini. A naive man innocently foils a smuggling plan.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1963. Police comedy by Georges Lautner with Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche. When an old gangster dies, he entrusts his belongings and his daughter to a friend.
Runtime: 106 min.

No Sun in Venice

V.O.: Sait-on jamais...
Fr. 1957. Drama by Roger Vadim with Françoise Arnoul, Christian Marquand, Robert Hossein. In Venice, a young woman triggers a fierce competition between three men.
Runtime: 87 min.

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